I'd need to see code to give actual suggestions, but i can tell you that the
current API has worked great for all of my applications (bookmarkable urls
and such).
I'm also very open to suggestions if there are ways to improve it.
The wicket Resource API is a bit confusing and probably could use some more
explaining. specifically regarding
how they work with resource references...
On 4/21/08, Zach Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Ryan - that all worked great until I needed to create a link to the
> feed
> from my WebPage. That page has pagination so once I click off the 1st
> page
> I lose the ID in the URL so the getParameters().getLong("id"); line starts
> failing. Although I'm not sure why using ResourceLink causes the SyndFeed
> to be created...
>
> My solution to this whole problem involved these classes:
> - MyFeedResource extends FeedResource and creates the SyndFeed using a
> particular ID that gets passed in to the constructor
> - MyFeedRequestTarget extends ResourceStreamRequestTarget and creates a
> new
> MyFeedResource using a particular ID, passing its IResourceStream to the
> super constructor
> - MyFeedRequestTargetUrlCodingStrategy gets mounted at a nice URL and
> handles encoding & decoding a MyFeedRequestTarget and a particular ID
> - MyFeedLink extends Link and creates a link to the feed for a
> particular
> ID (much like BookmarkablePageLink)
> - MyFeedHeaderContributor extends HeaderContributor and creates the
> auto-discovery link of the feed for a particular ID that goes in the
> <head>
> section
>
> What I thought was going to be straightforward blew up into five separate
> classes just to get feeds that take a parameter, can be accessed at nice
> URLs, and always work in feed readers. Can you see any way I can simplify
> this?
>
> I totally love Wicket and don't want to hate on it, it's made me orders of
> magnitude more productive than any other framework has, but every time I
> have to use the Resource API I want to put my head through a brick wall.
> That is definitely an area that could use some simplification & refinement
> in a future release.
>
> Thanks,
> Zach
>
>
>
>
>
> Ryan Sonnek-2 wrote:
> >
> > see responses inline:
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Zach Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >> I would like to have URLs for this feed something like this:
> >>
> >> http://site.com/feed/1234
> >>
> >>
> > This should be possible by mounting the feed resource with a "nice" url
> > from
> > within your WebApplication class:
> >
> > public class MyApplication extends WebApplication {
> > public void init() {
> > mountSharedResource("/view/rss", new ResourceReference("myFeed") {
> > protected FeedResource newResource() {
> > return new MyFeedResource();
> > }
> > }.getSharedResourceKey());
> > }
> > }
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> That way users can add that URL to their feed readers and always get
> >> the latest info for object 1234. All of the wicketstuff-rome examples
> >> I've seen seem to create the FeedResource instance once and then make
> >> it a shared resource. I'm currently doing that but the feeds seem to
> >> disappear and cannot be read in a feed reader after some time.
> >
> >
> > This would be a question for the wicket folks and not a wicketstuff-rome
> > issue. Is there any known limitation for feed resources?
> >
> >
> >
> >> Since wicketstuff-rome provides a Resource subclass (FeedResource) and
> >> not a WebPage subclass I'm confused as to how to do the following:
> >> - get bookmarkable URLs with a parameter for the feed
> >
> >
> > You can grab request params by using the getParameters() method within
> > your
> > FeedResource
> >
> > public class MyFeedResource extends FeedResource {
> >
> > protected SyndFeed getFeed() {
> > Long id = getParameters().getLong("id");
> > }
> >
> > }
> >
> >
> > - have a new FeedResource created & returned when user accesses that
> URL
> >
> >
> > need to ask the wicket folks why this isn't happening...
> >
> >
>
>
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